The Pied Piper

7.5 / 10

(56 votes)

A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of Czechoslovakia's most ambitious animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art direction, innovative animation techniques and use of a fictitious language.

Country:

Czechoslovakia,

Germany

Genre:

Animation,

Fantasy

Duration:

56 minutes

Year:

1986

Director:

Jiří Barta

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Company:

TV 2000 Film- und Fernsehproduktions GmbH,

Krátký film Praha,

Krátký film Praha – Studio Jiřího Trnky

Cast:
Oldřich Kaiser

(voice)

Jiří Lábus

(voice)

Michal Pavlíček

(voice)

Vilém Čok

(voice)

Crew:
Vladimír Malík

Cinematography

Ivan Vít

Cinematography

Kamil Pixa

Screenplay

Viktor Dyk

Original Story

Jiří Barta

Director